One Page Management, Riaz Khadem and Robert Lorber, Quill, 1998.
This is clearly in the One Minute Manager family of books, and shares their style of having a good nugget of information wrapped in a story you can read in an hour or two. (The style wears on me after a while, but it’s usually worth getting past.) In this case, the authors argue for a very simplified report up the management chain. It’s sort of “balanced scorecard light,” with some “management by exception” thrown in. I’m not prepared to evangelize the particular report they use, but I like the Big Visible Chart attitude. (Reviewed March, ’03)